The Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) system, which was introduced to focus on the “holistic assessment” of the child and eliminate rote learning, lays a lot of emphasis on projects and activities.
Pen-and-paper tests
While the two summative assessments in a year are pen-and-paper tests, the remaining four formative assessments involve activities. Students under this system are evaluated on role plays, experiments, lab work, collage, seminar presentations, among other things.
However, teachers involved in this assessment feel that students tend to lift material off the internet, copy from their peers or get their parents to complete their tasks, defeating the very purpose of this so-called creative exercise.
Although the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) allows each teacher to frame their own activities and method of assessments, Siddharth Pandiya, a class 10 student, said there was a need for teachers to frame novel activities which “excite” students.
A teacher from a Bangalore-based CBSE school said: “We are neither following the traditional exam-oriented system nor able to implement the CCE in true spirit.”
In fact, a report by the CBSE had observed that schools were assigning too many projects to each student, following which the board had directed schools to have multidisciplinary projects in groups.
Cost factor
Another area of concern for parents has been the cost factor.
Shilpa A., a parent who has two children in classes 7 and 9, said the projects often involved expenditure for materials. “Students who spend more and end up beautifying their projects score better. The teachers hardly have any time to asses the content of the project in depth. What is the use of assignments or projects then?”
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